Trump backs away from using Insurrection Act in Minneapolis after repeating threat to take action amid ICE protests – live
Trump backs away from using Insurrection Act in Minneapolis after repeating threat to take action amid ICE protests – live
Judge issues injunction to curb federal agents’ tactics against protesters in Minnesota – as it happened
On Insurrection Act, Trump says he doesn't think he 'needs it right now' in Minneapolis While speaking to reporters today, Trump said that he would use the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis if he “needed it”.
“I don’t think there’s any reason right now to use it, but if I needed it, I’d use it,” he added.
Earlier this week, Trump threatened to invoke the centuries old law, that allows the use of military forces to quell a domestic rebellion or invasion, in response to the protests against federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.
A reminder that George HW Bush was the last president to use the act during the deadly 1992 Los Angeles riots.